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Apple may be moving faster than expected in its modem development work, and Qualcomm's latest comments suggest that shift is already reshaping the iPhone supply chain.
Qualcomm overnight said supply constraints are shrinking some of its Apple business faster than anticipated. "It's availability of supply," CEO Cristiano Amon told Reuters.
While he wasn't specific, that likely reflects the broader industry shortage in memory, storage, and everything else and means the company's share of components used for the next iPhone launch will fall "well below" its anticipated estimates. Amon says this is part of a transition in which future Qualcomm income will be generated by AI datacenter demand.
The company also intends to boost modem prices on Sept. 1 (And remember, the patent licensing agreement between Apple and Qualcomm expires in March 2027.)
Given Apple is selling plenty of smartphones (even as the broader industry shrinks), supply constraints won't necessarily be because of demand for the devices; this could reflec
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Mark Zuckerberg argues the US should accelerate AI development instead of slowing it, setting up a public clash with OpenAI and Anthropic over AI regulation.
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An upgrade transformed the beleaguered virtual assistant into a modern chatbot. It's imperfect but worth trying.
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 The FCC this week banned all new "foreign-produced advanced robotic devices" because of an "unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States." The government says networked robotic systems lead to vulnerabilities that allow bad actors to control the devices and collect surveillance data from Americans.
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The mobile and tablet ports of the remastered puzzle game include a free trial.
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The company made a video of the bots in action doing stuff like cleaning trash and picking up watering cans.
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The company's latest fitness feature is designed to keep runners moving with a tailored audio experience.
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 Apple CEO Tim Cook today said Apple would be making a donation to support earthquake relief efforts in Japan.
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) July 30, 2026
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Nearly 1,300 AI workers are urging the US government to develop international tools that could slow automated frontier AI development if needed.
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 Spotify today announced a new Running Mode that turns playlists into structured running sessions built around workout type, tempo, and listening habits. It's launching on iOS first.
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The War in Iran "provided the exact lifeline that Putin needed to rescue him from economic catastrophe."
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 For the better part of two decades, an iPhone's alarm volume has matched its ringer. In other words, if you slide the ringtone volume down to silence your iPhone overnight, you're also turning your alarm's volume down with it. That's no longer the case in iOS 27.
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AI companies including Meta and Google are investing in electrician training as labor shortages emerge as a major obstacle to data center expansion.
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 Apple's AirTag 2 is available for the all-time low price of $89.00 this week, down from $99.00. This sale is on the 4-Pack of the AirTag 2, and it's a match of the record low price first seen during Prime Day.
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Users only have to long-press the 'fn' key on the bottom left corner of their keyboard to talk to Gemini on Mac.
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AI PROBLEMS Source NM: As Gallup officials respond to recent flooding, they say an AI news outlet is getting in the way. "Local officials said in addition to grappling with natural disasters, […]
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Like other big technology companies, Microsoft is hoping its aggressive spending on artificial intelligence is starting to translate into revenue.
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If you prefer running outdoors, this new feature could help you stay on track through the summer heat.
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for July 30, No. 675
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There's no word yet about when or where the food delivery service will begin air operations.
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Claude's status page is reporting elevated errors across all models.
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Taiwan detained a reported Nvidia employee in a probe into alleged exports of restricted Super Micro AI servers to China using falsified documents.
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 If you accidentally press the dictation or voice icon after sending a text in Messages, your music may pause while your iPhone starts listening. It's a small annoyance, but a frequent one, since the dictation/audio icon sits so close to the send arrow that stray taps are almost inevitable. In iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, Apple has finally given you a way to get rid of it.
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The company developed the DoorDash Air drones in-house.
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GPTZero found suspected AI-generated text, fabricated citations, and unsupported claims in four PwC Middle East research reports.
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 Apple's 20th anniversary iPhone is expected to arrive in the fall of 2027 with the most significant redesign the device has seen since the iPhone X.
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Meta is continuing its push into agentic AI assistants.
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GatherOne is one of Meta's 11 advertising partners in China.
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The program, ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, will start with 10,000 participants this summer.
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Sam Altman heads to Washington to brief officials on OpenAI's latest model as lawmakers debate AI safety, frontier audits, and competition with China.
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Here are hints and the answer for today's Wordle No. 1,867 for Thursday, July 30.
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When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks, the tech industry listens. He used his first-ever post on X last week to argue that open AI models "strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty."
Nvidia is a chip company (with a focus on GPUs). But it also has its own AI models that include Nemotron, an open-weight model that's free to download and modify. The company is also pushing for open AI technologies and security through the Nemotron Coalition and the newly launched Open Secure AI Alliance.
With Huang's recent comments in mind, Computerworld sat down with Kari Briski, Nvidia's vice president of generative AI (genAI) software, to find out more about open models and why they matter for enterprise and sovereign applications.
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The future of artificial intelligence depends on finding more skilled humans for some very physical jobs.
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 OpenAI's hardware roadmap has sharpened considerably in recent months, with its first device now identified, a smartphone said to be arriving as soon as next year, and a wider lineup taking shape behind them.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has argued that policymakers should keep lower-risk open-weight AI accessible while placing stricter safeguards around frontier systems, including mandatory testing and limits on China's access to advanced computing and model capabilities.
In a post outlining Anthropic's position, Amodei said broad restrictions, including bans on Chinese open-weight models used by US businesses, would not address his main national security concerns. Instead, he pointed to the possibility of authoritarian governments surpassing the US in advanced AI, as well as cyber, biological, and alignment risks posed by increasingly capable systems.
Amodei also called for action against industrial-scale model distillation, which he said allows Chinese developers to improve their models with less computing power than would be needed to train comparable systems from scratch.
The statement followed criticism of Anthropic for not signing an industry letter backed by Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Mistral, Hugging Face and other technology companies urging policymakers to avoid premature restrictions on open-weight models.
The letter said that open wei
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 Memory prices have doubled, Macs and iPads have gone up, and iPhones are expected to follow. Ed Zitron - who writes the Where's Your Ed At newsletter, hosts the Better Offline podcast, and has been described by Politico as the AI boom's most "acerbic gadfly" - has spent years arguing the buildout driving those costs will never pay for itself.
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The chipmaking giant is in talks with OpenAI to provide a $250 billion financial backstop for the project, which would be among the largest of the A.I. boom.
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 Opera One browser just pushed an update adding a Vertical Tabs option that moves the tab bar from the top of the window to a resizable panel down the left-hand side.
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NEW RESOURCES Pragmatika: An online archive of protest posters has been created in Ukraine: the gallery already has over 1100 "pictures". "A Ukrainian developer has launched an online platform ‘Voices from the […]
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Ms. Simo, who was Sam Altman's second in command before taking a medical leave in April, will become a part-time adviser to the company.
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AI PROBLEMS Euronews: Fact check: Were you fooled by these AI-generated images of the World Cup?. "The World Cup has officially kicked off, and with it so has a wave of AI-generated […]
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the hiring of Mustafa Suleyman, a former co-founder of DeepMind, the AI startup acquired by Google in 2014. Suleyman will assume the role of executive vice president and CEO of Microsoft AI, directly reporting to CEO Satya Nadella.
During Suleyman's time at Google, DeepMind established itself as a frontrunner in AI research; it also caught the eye of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who moved to counteract Google's growth by founding the nonprofit AI lab, OpenAI.
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Baidu reported stronger-than-expected revenue in the most recent period, driven by its search-engine business and artificial-intelligence initiatives.
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